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• ITMO Researchers Suggest New Way to Improve Quantum Encryption in Optical Fiber Communication Lines

  Staff members of the Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements have found the cause of errors that occur on subcarrier frequencies in quantum key distribution (QKD) systems – as well as a way to eliminate it. Their research was published in Optics Express. 

  19.10.2020

• Discover Yamal Peninsula: Wise Up and Learn to Welcome Change

  Sometimes I am terrified by how little I know about my own country and especially its many regions. Not long ago, I stumbled upon a short course on Yamal, a peninsula in Western Siberia, surrounded by northern seas, and it shook my world in so many ways that I can’t help but share what I learn in hopes to change yours – if only a little! 

  19.10.2020

• Technologies and Business: ITMO to Launch a New Track for I am a Professional Contest

  In total, there are now five tracks from ITMO University in the contest: Information and Cybersecurity, Programming and Information Technologies, Robotics, Machine Learning, and the new track Technology Entrepreneurship. 

  16.10.2020

• Scientists Explain Why Paradise State Is Hard to Reach

  Authors of a paper on social relations’ modelling have adapted the popular model of human interaction in a society by adding individual preferences. According to the initial theory, human relations may reach a “paradise state” at some point. However, the new model contradicts this idea.

  14.10.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 17-18, 2020

  Golden leaves keep falling while we celebrate another week of this autumn with hot cocoa in our cups. This weekend, we invite you to an exhibition, a theatre festival, and a journey through some of this year’s best international documentaries. Enjoy! 

  14.10.2020

• TECHNOHISTORY Project Showcases New Approaches to Historical Studies

  The staff of ITMO University’s Center of Social and Humanities Knowledge have developed a unique educational project at the intersection of history, art, humanities, and natural sciences.

  13.10.2020

• Celebration for Children Student Club: Bringing Smiles All Year Around

  As you might know, ITMO University has an abundance of student clubs. This time, we decided to tell you about, perhaps, one of the brightest and colorful of them all – the Celebration for Children children’s aid club. We talked to the current head of the club, Katerina Ikonnikova, to learn what drives its members, how they come up with ideas, and how the club is handling the challenges of the pandemic.

  13.10.2020

• Your Guide to Gaming in Fall-Winter of 2020

  If this year’s many weeks of self-isolation haven’t already made you an adept of the gamepad and keyboard, then the fall-winter season surely will: the cold, long nights combined with a slew of anticipated releases and a whole new generation of consoles make for a potent mixture. Let’s go ahead and take a glance at all the things 2020 still has in store.

  09.10.2020

• In a Nutshell: Black Holes and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

  This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics have just been announced. This year, the award went to astrophysicists who made a significant contribution to the study of black holes. ITMO.NEWS and Anastasia Topchieva, junior research associate at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explain what the scientists studied and what their research means. 

  07.10.2020

• ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?

  This year’s winners told ITMO.NEWS how to get into conferences at Google and Intel while still being in school, win an international robotics competition, release your own game on Steam and make it a top seller, and also how to solve issues relating to the environment, children’s sleep, and expensive prostheses.

  06.10.2020